Around the World in Seventy-Two Days chronicles Nellie Blys 188990 circumnavigation, conceived as a real-life answer to Jules Vernes fiction. Writing in brisk, first-person reportage, Bly knits together ports and timetablesLondon, Brindisi, Suez, Colombo, Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Franciscothrough the eras steamships, railways, and telegraph. She interviews Verne in Amiens, notes imperial infrastructures and cultural encounters, and dwells on the logistics of traveling with a single gripsack and one dress. The book belongs to late nineteenth-century New Journalism and travel writing, melding speed, spectacle, and empirical observation for a mass readership. Bly (born Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman) was a pathbreaking reporter for Joseph Pulitzers New York World, famous for Ten Days in a Mad-House and other investigative stunt pieces. Her record-setting voyageshadowed by rival Elizabeth Bislandwas at once a circulation gambit and a feminist wager, proving a woman could traverse the globe unchaperoned, manage money, and master schedules within the industrial networks of modernity. Readers of travel literature, journalism history, and gender studies will find this a propulsive primary source: a narrative of motion that also reveals the infrastructures and prejudices of its moment. For its pace, candor, and cultural insight, Blys classic remains indispensableand unexpectedly contemporary.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.
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